Word: uncertainity
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...time of pressure and worry in the Mondale camp. There is pressure from feminists to choose a woman as his vice-presidential candidate, which threatens to put him in a damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn't dilemma. And there is tension over the still uncertain prospects of striking a deal with Jesse Jackson that would avoid both a disruptive convention battle and any appearance that Mondale had surrendered principle for the sake of party peace...
...negotiators have no legal authority to enact their recommendations and many, including key members of the project, are uncertain how many of the ideas will actually come to fruition...
...White House was uncertain whether the Soviets would still want to meet on this basis. Maybe. Recent visitors to Moscow have come away with the impression that the Kremlin leaders are genuinely afraid they might lose an arms race in space to superior U.S. technology...
...appealed to the downtrodden Sephardim both because of his fierce nationalism and because of previous neglect of their basic needs. In the 1977 and 1981 elections, the Sephardim helped bring Begin to power by delivering an overwhelming majority of their vote. This year, however, their political party preferences remain uncertain, and ethnic divisions have been largely eclipsed by ideological differences...
...pursuit of a college education took her through uncertain territory. Middle-class teenagers of the time went on to college from high school the way they went to the drive-in for frozen custard and French fries. Everyone enrolled somewhere, and no one thought much about it. But Bombeck was working class, the first person in her family's history even to graduate from high school. College was not seen as a necessity for many young women, or even as especially desirable. "Your goals were supposed to be modest," she recalls. "If you were a girl, you either...